Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead

Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead (1858–1955) was an American artist, photographer and aesthete.

She was born on September 22, 1858, in Philadelphia to Jane Byrd Mercer and Peter McCall.

[2] She studied art with John Ruskin at the Académie Julian in Paris, and in 1886 while travelling with her parents through Europe, she was presented to Queen Victoria.

[2] With her husband, she founded Byrdcliffe, an arts and crafts colony that opened in 1903.

[3][4] In 2004, her work was the subject of a one-person show, Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead's (1861-1955) Idealized Visions About Simple Living and the Arts and Crafts, at the Georgia Museum of Art.